Amendments to Election Code Passed with Second Hearing

The Georgian Parliament unanimously approved amendments to the election code, related with the new rule of electing Tbilisi City Council (Sakrebulo), with its second hearing on July 8.
 
Parliamentarians from the ruling National Movement party, who comprise a majority in the Parliament, decided to discuss these amendments with its third and final reading, during the autumn session.
 
Opposition parliamentarians, who are against the new rule of electing the Tbilisi City Council, boycotted the parliamentary discussions on July 7-8.

The new rule, envisages the election of the 25 members of the 37-member City Council through a first-past-the-post, ?winner takes all? system. Each of the political party will nominate two or three candidacies in each of the Tbilisi?s 10 constituencies. While the remaining 12 seats will be distributed, through so called a ?compensatory list,? among those parties which garner at least 4% of votes in all ten constituencies of the capital city.

MP Giga Bokeria from the National Movement party says that the party will be able to endorse its nominations to the City Council only in case it garners at least 1/3 of the total votes cast in the constituency.

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